Managing the inequality for female athletes
Tannen Holt, Staff Writer
January 18, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The issue of sexism is one that many here at South do daily work to fight against. The fighting of an oppressive patriarchy is a duty that countless students pride themselves in contributing towards. As of late, the idea of exposing sexism within sports has been a hot topic. Last year, there was a p...
South athletics pave the way for professional athletes
Diana Caminelli, Staff Writer
January 16, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
South has many athletic teams and offers a variety of sports for students. Most people do sports for fun, because it keeps them fit, or because it’s a great way to socialize. However, sports involvement for students can become more that just an hobby. Several professional athletes have graduated f...
NFL star: Cedric Mckinley walks these very halls
Oliver Hall, Staff Writer
January 10, 2017
Filed under Sports
A security guard at a high school isn’t always someone many of us notice. Many of us pass them by in the halls without a second thought and never stop to think about them. However, ignoring people around you can make you miss out on some amazing facts. Cedric Mckinley, Assistant Caretaker and Securit...
GPA requirement for sports helps students shine
Asanti Bekele, Staff Writer
December 26, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
It is often portrayed in famous high school movies that jocks only care about their sport and popularity, but the reality is far from it. According to an article in the Star Tribune, 99% of the senior athletes that attended Minneapolis Public Schools graduates from high school. Student athletes in Min...
New coaches continue to slide through Nordic team
Luciana Rian-Senna, Staff Writer
December 16, 2016
Filed under Sports
Every year around the beginning of November, South students come from the swim team, cross country running, ultimate Frisbee, mountain biking, soccer and volleyball to get together for Nordic skiing. Some are new and some are returning skiers. Traditions, expectations, and skiers stay the same but th...
South bikers won’t let a little cold stop them
Diana Caminelli, Staff Writer
December 15, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Winter has arrived. The roads are covered with snow, the wind picked up and it is always colder. The number of people who walk has decreased while the drivers has increased. Everyone would probably rather spend the day at home in the warmth, but there are brave people who still plan to bike even dur...
Girls basketball starts the season off on the right foot
Oliver Hall, Staff Writer
December 9, 2016
Filed under Sports
There was a girls varsity basketball game last Tuesday on the 6th. The game went very well for South. Only seven minutes into the first half South had a heavy lead with a score of 18-2. For the first half almost all of the players had scored at least eight points, and Morgan Hill in the end scored th...
Kneeling for a cause: South High volleyball team
Luciana Rian-Senna, Staff Writer
October 14, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories, Volleyball
At their game against Washburn last month, the South volleyball team took a knee during the national anthem, taking part in what is becoming a national protest, to raise awareness towards the American government supporting and funding the police who have been killing people based on racial prejudices. ...
Mountain bike team backpedals due to conflict with league rules
Tannen Holt, Staff Writer
October 12, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In their first year of competing as an individual team, the South Mountain Bike Team has come off to a strong start. In the majority of their races, the JV team has placed highly, coming in at least 1st or 2nd. However, the team is caught in between the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) rule...
With different bodies, come different injuries
Luca Raffo-Simoes, Staff Writer
October 11, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Female bodied athletes are more prone to getting injured in sports, it’s simply anatomy. The way their hips are placed and the greater extent of flexibilities that comes along with getting less body muscle then male bodied people during puberty. Does this affect female bodied people joining sports? ...
Tiger Pride shines through the cold at South High homecoming game
Asanti Bekele, Staff Writer
October 10, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
Despite the freezing weather and loss at the homecoming game, South tigers continue to keep their spirit. At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, everybody who bought a ticket to the game went to the gym entrance while shoving and pushing each other. From the moment the security guards checked for the orange tick...
With wins and losses, October Super Soccer Saturday was a kick this year
Katherine Lundquist, Staff Writer
October 5, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
There were 6 soccer games at southwest High School, starting off with women's B squad at 9 a.m. and wrapping up the day with men's varsity at 7 p.m. Even though South’s women's varsity lost 6-1, it was the best they played all season: “We played a lot harder than last Super Soccer Saturday,”...
Elliott Askari-Rabe, Staff Writer
April 22, 2019 • No Comments
Birds are truly a sight to behold. They are, literally, avian dinosaurs, so it's no wonder that students at South have founded a new bird watching club. They had their first...
April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019
If you were able to vote (regardless of age) out of the following declared or likely to declare candidates, which would you choose to be the 46th President of the United States?
- Former Vice President Joe Biden (43%, 72 Votes)
- California Senator Kamala Harris (20%, 33 Votes)
- Current President Donald Trump (17%, 29 Votes)
- Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (7%, 11 Votes)
- South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (7%, 11 Votes)
- Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (4%, 6 Votes)
- Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (2%, 3 Votes)
- Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard (2%, 3 Votes)
- Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (1%, 1 Votes)
- Former Federal Housing Secretary and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (0%, 0 Votes)
- Washington Governor Jay Inslee (0%, 0 Votes)
- Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (0%, 0 Votes)
- Maryland Representative John Delaney (0%, 0 Votes)
- New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (0%, 0 Votes)
- New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (0%, 0 Votes)
- None of the above (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 13,849
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